NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock will become the exclusive home for WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event series starting later this year, per an announcement made by both parties on Wednesday.
SNME will broadcast four times per year exclusively on Peacock as part of the new agreement. The deal, which will begin with a show on November 1, will feature John Cena’s last match as part of a special on December 13. The location for either show has yet to be revealed.
WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event special returned in late 2024 on NBC’s main TV network as part of a package that brought Smackdown back to the USA Network. Four editions of the show have aired over the past year. The last broadcast, a show in July, was headlined by the retiring Goldberg taking on Gunther.
The new announcement comes just hours after it was revealed that WWE will exit its Premium Live Event (PLE) deal with Peacock months earlier than initially expected, moving over to ESPN by September 20.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the deal was “brokered” between WWE and Peacock, and as part of it included a new main roster media rights deal, which had yet to be announced. It seems likely that the SNME agreement is the “main roster” deal referred to in the report.
A press release issued by NBC notes that the service will continue to host NXT Premium Live Events until March 2026. They will also house the WWE Network library of programming until the end of 2025.
